Watershed: Cypress Creek
Length: 48.2 miles
Watershed area: 306 square miles
Designated uses: Contact Recreation, High Aquatic Life and Public Water Supply
Water Quality Impairments: Bacteria and Nutrients
Trends (based on up to 14 years of monitoring data):
Improving: Dissolved Oxygen, Ammonia, Sulfate
Worsening: pH, Chlorophyll a (algae)
Mixed: Turbidity
Discussion: The water quality in Cypress Creek is not supporting its contact recreation use designation about half the times sampled. In all cases with the nutrients, it appears that there have been improvements with Waste Water Treatment Plant operations to a degree that ammonia concentrations are decreasing throughout the watershed, however, nitrate, and phosphates are increasing.
Further detailed discussion: http://www.bsr2011.com/documents/Watershed_Summary_Maps/1009_Cypresss_Creek.pdf
Water Quality Data tables: http://www.bsr2011.com/watershed_summaries.aspx and select Segment Number "1009"
Source: H-GAC 2011 Basin Summary Report ( http://www.bsr2011.com/ )
